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Sometimes, the physics of physical affection in anime and manga just don't make sense. With anime and manga character designs being so stylized, it's common for the romantic male lead to be a dashing young man with a tall, lanky build, and for his...

Following the main visual, Bandai Visual today posted a 15-second announcement video for the upcoming anime adaptation of Yasuo Ohtagaki's Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga. It has been screened at five theaters in Japan since October 31, attac...

"I never thought this day would come," says the Final Fantasy VII hero. Neither did we, Cloud. Neither did we. Once upon a time, Square, developer of the Final Fantasy series, and Nintendo were the best of friends.

Who cares if the result is even more embarrassing. Not this guy! Over on Japanese comedy site Omocoro, a fellow who goes by "Mansooon" said that he found selfie sticks embarrassing because when you use them, other people know you are using a selfi...

Terra Formars will finally be released Japan-wide on April 29, 2016. Based on the huge hit manga, the buzzworthy movie has an all-star cast and is directed by Takashi Miike. A teaser to the movie was finally posted on Nov.

Nintendo recently held a new Nintendo Direct on November 12th where the company has made many big announcements for the upcoming year, including many big first party reveals. We will be covering the major announcements from the recent Direct.

By Jenni . November 12, 2015 . 3:13pm Nintendo has announced a collector's edition for Final Fantasy Explorers, Square Enix's Nintendo 3DS game with Monster Hunter-tendencies. When players start going out with their custom hero to fight monsters a...

For the first time in forever (singing Frozen song in the background) I am invited to the Game Start Asia 2015 with a friend of mine. It is going to happen on this coming weekend ; 13 to 15 November 2015.

Vocaloid superstar Hatsune Miku is heading back to North America next spring as part of her Hatsune Miku Expo 2016 tour. Eight shows in six cities are currently scheduled, with tickets set to go on sale November 20th.

Toei's latest tokusatsu team-up film, entitled Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. ToQger: The Movie - Ninjas in Wonderland, is coming to Japanese movie theaters in January of 2016. The film features the casts of 2014's train-themed sentai series Ressha...

Saitama and Genos from the anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata's One Punch-Man manga has been featured in the December 2015 issue of Animedia as a poster. This issue of Animedia can be purchased here and you can view the other posters that ...

The second Wake Up, Girls! film from the new two-part release is scheduled to be released on December 11th, 2015 as it follows up the first half work and now Avex Pictures has released the first full trailer for it.

By Sato . November 13, 2015 . 2:30am We previously got a look at Warrior of Light's highlight trailer for Dissidia Final Fantasy on arcade, and Square Enix's latest is one for Final Fantasy II's main character Firion.

Universal Music Japan has posted a 100-second version music video for "Shoudou" (Impulse), the OP theme song for the ongoing live-action TV drama adaptation of Akira Hiramoto's comedy manga series Prison School, performed by four-member rock band ...

Delivering what could be a huge hit of nostalgia for long-time fans of the Pokemon franchise, Nintendo have announced that Pokemon Red Version, Pokemon Blue Version and Pokemon Special Pikachu Edition (Yellow Version) are all set to be re-released...

By Sato . November 12, 2015 . 5:00am Square Enix recently hosted a live stream event for Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, where they showed off a lengthy look at some gameplay footage, along with details on the upcoming game.

The main cast for Ojisan and Marshmallow, an upcoming short-form office comedy about a middle-aged office worker who loves marshmallows and the coworker who loves him, has been announced. The cast includes: Tetsu Inada as Habahiro Kusaka, aka Hige.

Our favorite anime and manga pollsters, Charapedia, are at it again this week with another question for the anime-loving Japanese masses, and their subject this time is a doozy: anime's most shogekiteki na kamigata: shocking hairstyles.

In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Aquarion anime franchise, Kamikaze Douga (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Gatchaman Crowds OP animations), has produced a 30-second special CM featuring "Sousei no Aauarion," the OP theme song for the firs...

The official website for the Project Itoh today announced that temporally suspended production of Genocidal Organ, one of the three films based on Project Itoh's sci-fi novels, will be continued by Geno Studio, a newly-established studio by produc...

In commemoration of the 15th anniversary of The Powerpuff Girls' premiere on Japanese TV, Parco Museum, located on the third floor of the Shibuya Parco Part 1 building, will hold a special collaborative exhibition titled "Love Live!

While we continue to wait for the series to get its North American release, if it makes it at all, it looks like the Japanese side has moved past the singles and into the full series box set at a reduced price.

Looks like someone has managed to snap an on-the-set spy shot from a recent super sentai shoot with a certain red colored suit actor on the spot light. As we can see, the suit's back design is simple with no designs at all.

'真紅の決意' (Shinku no Ketsui) "Crimson Resolve" Woah, how long as it been since we've seen the great outdoors (well, anemic patches of grass anyway) on Subete ga F ni Naru? I'm not one to judge people for staying cooped up indoors with dozens of moni...

The official website of A-1 Picture's Glass no Hana to Kowasu Sekai (Garakowa -Restore the World-) anime has revealed a brand new visual and cast member for the upcoming January 9th film. One new cast member has been revealed who will be part of t...

Atlus and Vanillaware have released the latest trailer for Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir, showcasing one of the game's protagonists, Mercedes. Here's a look at the official video. Mercedes, the Princess of Fairies, wields a bow in combat and this video...

The anime adaptation of the High☆Speed! is inching ever closer to its release in just a few weeks and it's now got another character trailer out to get fans excited. This one brings us a quick look at Nao Serizawa, who is being played by Satoshi H...

Every once in a while a commercial comes along that so accurately deconstructs the human condition that it's hard for any of us to not cry lasers over it. There was that one time Intel showed us the harrowing tale of a young boy whose friend was d...

Post-apocalyptic RPG blockbuster Fallout 4 has been gaining much acclaim with its recent release, not just for its mutant-blasting action but also for the rather prompt emergence of some scandalous nude mods, eminently suitable players who could n...

Akihabara has spawned a hefty new maid cafe for crazed otaku to clamor over, recruiting maids of a "BBW" body type as its main draw, a rare enough gimmick to have attracted some attention, along with both encouragement and ridicule.

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